Example sentences of "he [verb] at [pers pn] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She liked Peter 's smooth , clean skin , and his childhood-smelling hair , and the way he gazed at her with huge eyes without his glasses . |
| 2 | He peered at her with little beady eyes , as though trying to guess from her expression how much she and her companion had heard . |
| 3 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 4 | ‘ He looked at me with one of those amiable stares of his , said I was overworked and I should take some time off . |
| 5 | He looked at me with confident contempt . |
| 6 | He looked at me with bright eyes , unperplexed . |
| 7 | He looked at me with yellow feral eyes . |
| 8 | And he looked at me with full concentration . |
| 9 | He looked at me with some care . |
| 10 | He looked at her with sardonic amusement which deepened when she quickly looked away . |
| 11 | He looked at her with new respect , the way they always did when she said something like that . |
| 12 | He looked at her with such incredulity that she turned away . |
| 13 | The man at her side wore sea boots and a thick white sweater , and he looked at her with one eyebrow raised , a small , teasing smile lifting the corners of his mouth . |
| 14 | He looked at her with hard eyes that seemed to see every thought she had ever had . |
| 15 | He looked at her with big , brown , sad eyes . |
| 16 | He looked at her with hunted eyes . |
| 17 | He looked at her with troubled eyes , but she could not know how much his answer was going to hurt . |
| 18 | He looked at her with slow deliberation , and she felt her breathing deepen . |
| 19 | He looked at her with those sensual eyes and she knew how Ma must have felt when she first met Pa . |
| 20 | He looked at her with those bleak eyes . |
| 21 | He looked at it with intense concentration for a few moments , then left the room . |
| 22 | When we approached the 12 year-old 's little aluminium throne with its torn plastic seat and its bent wheels , he looked at us with that special insouciance of the Lebanese militiaman . |
| 23 | The boy amid the ruins could have been no more than 12 years old and he looked at us with genuine disinterest , sitting on a broken office swivel chair in the middle of rue Trablos , scruffy brown hair on top of a tired , old face . |
| 24 | He smiled at them with inclusive good will . |
| 25 | He smiled at her with that lopsided grin and she was undone . |
| 26 | He smiled at her with lazy charm . |
| 27 | He smiled at her with such confidence that she felt comforted . |
| 28 | He gazes at her with puzzled concern . |